Suspension means for pumping apparatus



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Gnu-aw Brannon E. LATHE, O l? HQ'US'KDN, TEXAS.

SUSFENSIQE MEANS FOR PUZEFING -,*.'P'?ILRATUE.

Application filed fieptember 5, 1922. Serial No. 586,185.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAHLON E. LAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houston. in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful. Suspension Means for Pumping Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to suspension means for pumping apparatus and is particularly directed to that type of deep-Well pumping apparatus in which the entire pumping mechanism is suspended upon a support at the Well surface.

An object of the invention is to provide a suspension means by wh ch a iree vertical alignment of the pumping; mechanism is permitted. While at thesame time insuring an equal. distribution of the load on the support regardless'of variations in the cooperating elements oi the support and said mechanism, and without necessitating a machining; of the cooperating" surfaces of said elements. 1

Various other objects will be more "fully apparent from the following description of accompanying drawings which form a art of this disclosure and which illustrate. P a

a preferred form of embodiment of the invention.

Of the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in sec tion, of a standard type of pumping up paratus having my improved suspension means incorporated therewith.

Fig. 9 is a plan View of the supporting memher. i

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of El, and

Fig. l is an elevation looking at the right side of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail section on line 5-5 of Fig. l.

Fig. 6 is a similar detail section illustratingz an alternate construction.

In the drawings, a standard type of deep? Well pumping mechanism is illustrated in Fig. 1, and includes a7 discharge casin s, 1 carrying near its lower end a pump unit 2 and connected at its upper end to a discharge head 3 having an opening connecting with a discharge pipe 4. The "pump drive shaft 5 is incased in a shaft tubing '6 and is in this instance, driven by a vertical motor 7 supported upon the pump head 3.

A supporthigmember 8 rests upon suitable foundation at the Well surtaeo and its upper surface is provided with three cir inwardly and downwardly, and which proride seats for supporting the discharge head 3 and its connected mechanism. The head 3 has an annular flange 10 which has an under surface radially angled inwardly and downwardly (see Fig. l), and which engages the bosses 9 and in this manner the discharge head 3 engages the supporting member 8 at three circularly spaced points and depending-1y supports the entire pumpinp; mechanism within the Well.

By this arrangement the entire pumpinn; mechanism is dependingly supported upon angled surfaces in. a manner which will permit an. automatic alignment of the mechanism in the Well.

With particular rei erence to Fig.2 it will he noted that hy providing a three. point suspension the bosses 9 are arranged out of relative diametric alignment Which results in all. of said hosses being at all times engaged by the angled flange 10 of the pump head 3 regardless of variations in the sev coal bosses or in the flange 10.

With other types of cooperating surfaces which engage each other at diametrically opposite points or tinoughout their entire circumference such constant cooperative engagement can oniy securedlcy accurate machining of the parts and will he immediately destroyed hy a slight Warping or uneven Wearing" of the parts or settling of foundation. hot with the three point suspension means or the present invention in it" .1 M, a. "1.- w 3.0 i it bfiOpihittll'lg supporting surfaces are circularly arranged out of relative diametric alignment, the necessity of accurate insohinin or machining of any kind is eliminate and the question of warping or wear or settling of the parts need he given no serious consideration, as the'pumping mechanism will always center itseit upon the three supporting tosses 9.

This is not only important by reason of the saving or the cost of machining, but

also for the reason that where warping and Wearing and settling of parts is not of major import a much lighter construction may he used, all of which contrihutes to an economic production of the apparatus.

In Fig. 6 is illustrated on alternate construction in which the bosses 9? are iormed upon the under surface oi the pump head iii flange instead of on the'supporting member 8. J v

While the fern of construction herein illustrated and described well adapted-for the purposes and objects of. the invention,

it isv to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the one form. of embodiment herein disclosed for it is susceptible of embodiment in various other forms all coming Within the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. In a device of the nature disclosed, a stationary supporting member having a plurality of bearing surfaces circularly arranged out of relative diamelric alignment, and a well pumping mechanism provided with a circularradially angled bearing surface engaging the bearingsui-faces of the supporting member to dependinglysupport said mechanism.

In a device of "the nature disclosed, a stationary su porting member having a plurality of racli circularly arranged out of relative diametric alignment, and a 'well pumping nieel'ianism having a circular radially angled bearing surface engaging the bearing surfaces of the supporting member to dependingly support said mechanism.

3.v In a device of the nature disclosed, a stationary supporting member having a plurality of bosses circularly arranged out of relative diametric alignment, and a well umping mechanism provided with a circu- -ar radially angled bearing surface engaging said bosses to dependingly support said mechanism.-

4:. In a devicerof the nature disclosed, a stationary supporting member having a pluralityof bosses angled radially and circularly arranged'out of relative diametric alignment, and a Well pumping mechanism ally angled bearing "surfaces provided with a circular radially angled bearing surface engaging said bosses to depending-1y support said mechanism.

5. In a device of the nature disclosed, a

stationary annular supporting member havinga plurality of bosses radially angled 1nwardly and downwardly and circularly arranged out of relative diametric alignn'ient,

,illligilfl iflfi, and the other member having a rooilierating radially angled clrcular bearing sfnrface engaging said spaced bearing-suraces.

tion of a pump unit having a discharge casing connected to its upper end and extendmgvertically upward, a stationary supportlng member supper-ting three circularly spaced inwardly and dmvnwardly angled an led bearing surface engaging said bosses.

igned at South Pasadena, California, this 26th day of August, 1922.

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

, 4. In a pumping mechanism, the combina- 

